The United States received no permission from the United Nations to intervene in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday, 16 November.

“We were surprised to hear a statement made by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis when talking to the U.S. media representatives, on November 13, that the U.S. Armed Forces are in Syria <with the permission of the UN>”, Zakharova said.

Her comments were made after Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, said that Washington’s intervention in Syria had been approved by the United Nations.

“I want to remind you that the Security Council is the only agency under the UN Charter that is entitled to take decisions on using military force”, she said, adding that“no such decision has been taken”.

“The U.S. forces are there contrary to the wishes of Syria’s legitimate government, in fact acting as occupants”, the diplomat stressed.

Outside of the UN, for the U.S. to be able to conduct legal military operations abroad, it should also receive the approval of the Congress – yet this regulation is constantly violated. Activity against terrorist groups, as well as government forces, have taken place in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya and are explained by the fact that the Congress allowed the U.S. forces to fight Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Critics say that the White House and Pentagon are interpreting the legislation too broadly. On October 30th, Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State, stated that “geographical constrictions” [of the bill] should not be a limitation for the US to fight ISIS anywhere in the world, and that no updated legislation was necessary. This doesn’t change the fact that no UNSC permission, on behalf of the international community, was ever given to the US to invade Syria.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani underlined that the UN Security Council’s resolution to deploy UN observers to Aleppo to monitor evacuations is useless and ignores dispatch of humanitarian aid to people who are besieged by the terrorists.

“Approval of the UNSC’s Resolution 2328 last night was a move to continue the past destructive measures and paves the ground for the intelligence and military agents of the countries which support terrorism to enter Aleppo in disguise as observers,” Shamkhani told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday.

“In this resolution, no role has been foreseen for the legal Syrian government and only the issue of safe evacuation of militants from Aleppo has been paid attention instead of prioritizing the issue of aiding the people who are under the terrorists’ siege in Syria,” he added…..

Syria’s permanent envoy to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said on Wednesday that the US, Turkish and Israeli military aggression on Syria means moving from a stage of proxy aggression into “the personal aggression”, referring to the failure of international community to condemn the US-led coalition aggression on Syrian army positions in Deir Ezzor.

“The big shock, of which the international community has failed to condemn or express concern, was represented by the unjustified, flagrant aggression of the US-led coalition on sites for the Syrian army which combats ISIS in Jabal Tharda in Deir Ezzor,” al-Jaafari said, adding that this aggression has claimed the lives of 83 and more than 100 wounded of the army personnel…

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari criticized the UN meetings on the humanitarian situation in Syria as being politicized and not aimed at helping the Syrian people.

During a session to listen to the report of the UN Undersecretary-General on the humanitarian situation in Syria on Tuesday, al-Jaafari said the repeated official and non-official meetings and urgent updates held recently on almost a weekly basis, with or without brokers and in many times of no use, have been pointless as they were not aimed at helping the Syrian people to get out of the crisis in an objective way and in compliance with the rules of the international law and the resolution no. 46/182 on providing emergency humanitarian assistance.

It is not that Syria doesn’t want such meetings to take place, but rather, “we want the objective of these meetings to be providing real help in solving the crisis in Syria in an honest and effective way away from any politicization that has become flagrant,” said al-Jaafari.

He added that “such meetings should not be used by governments of states that are responsible for the shedding of the Syrians’ blood and the sweeping cross-border terrorism as a means to demonize the Syrian government and exploit the humanitarian situation to exert pressure on it”.

Head of the Syrian Arab Republic delegation to the intra-Syrian dialogue in Geneva Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari said that the fourth round of dialogue with the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura was concluded.

In a press conference following a discussion session with de Mistura at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Friday, al-Jaafari added that we held an in-depth discussion focusing on several topics, the most important of which is the humanitarian situation.

“42 times humanitarian aid entered “unstable or restive areas” over the past four months in cooperation with the Syrian government and in coordination with the UN and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.
“219 trucks have entered the restive areas, not to mention 65 trucks that entered al-Rastan area yesterday,” al-Jaafari added, putting the figure of the locals who received humanitarian aid in unstable areas at 1, 170,000.
“We have 6.5 million internally-displaced people who have been displaced from the areas where terrorists and armed gangs exist, 90 per cent of them are living in government-controlled areas and all of them benefit from humanitarian assistance,” al-Jaafari indicated, pointing out that 1, 700, 000 people have returned to their localities and continue to receive periodical and sustained assistance by the government.

“It has become known to all, including the UN Security Council members in New York, that there are organized networks of international terrorism supervised by certain intelligence services which are sending terrorists inside Syria across Syria’s borders with neighboring countries,” he added.

Head of the Syrian Arab Republic’s delegation to the Syrian-Syrian dialogue in Geneva, Bashar al-Jaafari asserted that the dialogue can still go on with the Republic’s delegation and other delegations of the opposition even if the “Riyadh opposition” group wants to suspend its participation.

He affirmed that the Republic’s delegation has shown the highest level of discipline and commitment among all the groups participating in the intra-Syrian dialogue.

He made it clear that the opposition groups who want to be part of an expanded national government should not be linked to terrorism or follow foreign agendas and should be living in Syria, adding that the “Riyadh opposition” group is linked to Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar.

“Al-Riyadh opposition delegation stir problems since the beginning of the process in Geneva and threaten to suspend talks or postpone them as they wait for the orders from their supports in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar,” al-Jaafari said.

“The opposition is not only restricted to the higher Commission for negotiations formed in Saudi Arabia, “al-Jaafari told Reuters , adding “If they wanted to boycott talks, they could do so, it is not a big problem for us because they are not the only representatives of the Syrian opposition.”

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted resolution No. 2268 on cessation of combat activities in Syria.

The council reiterated commitment to Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, voicing support to settle the crisis in Syria through the UN, based on Geneva Statement and Vienna declarations.

Members of the Council called on UN Secretary General and his Special Envoy for Syria to resume the Syrian-Syrian dialogue as soon as possible.

In a statement after the Council adopted the resolution, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov stressed the need to stop the support provided for terrorist organizations by foreign sides because that hinders the political solution for the crisis in Syria.

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Bashar Al-Jaafari called for holding the Turkish regime accountable for shelling Syrian territories, affirming that…“Turkey tries to push all sides to escalate the situation in Syria”.

“The hostile acts of Ankara made, even, the countries which were supporting Turkey to express concern over its policy”, Al-Jaafari said in press statements following the Security Council session held on Tuesday upon Russia’s demand to discuss the Turkish shelling of the Syrian lands.

Al-Jaafari affirmed “the complicity of Turkey with Qatar and Saudi Arabia against Syria and its allies,” pointing out that “terrorism-supporting countries are suffering from hysterical bout due to the Syrian Army’s progress on all fronts.”

“Turkey has allowed terrorists to transfer the deadly Sarin gas to the Syrian territories”

The Syrian government does not allow neither UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura nor anybody else to talk about testing Syria’s seriousness in any matter, an official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said Tuesday night.

“Rather, the Syrian government is now in need to test the credibility of the UN Special Envoy whose statements, since the beginning of his mission to the mass media outlets, completely contradict to what happen in joint meetings with the Syrian government,” added the source.

The neo-conservatives and liberal hawks who have been preparing the war against Syria since 2001 have been relying on several states from the UNO and the Gulf Co-operation Council.

While we know about the role played by General David Petraeus in launching and pursuing the war until today, two personalities – Jeffrey Feltman (number 2 at the UNO) and Volker Perthes (Director of the main German think tank) – have remained in the shadows.

Together, with the support of Berlin, they have been using and are still manipulating the United Nations in order to destroy Syria.

In 2005, when Jeffrey Feltman – then the US ambassador in Beirut – supervised the assassination of Rafic Hariri, he relied on support from Germany, both for the assassination itself (Berlin supplied the weapon) [1], and for the UNO Commission charged with accusing Presidents el-Assad and Lahoud (prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, police commissioner Gerhard Lehmann and their team).

The international campaign against the two Presidents was notably led by the German political analyst Volker Perthes [2]… … …

During the annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group, between the 5th and the 8th June 2008 – five years before the war – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a presentation which underlined the necessity of overthrowing the Syrian government.

She was accompanied in this task by the Director of the Arab Reform Initiative [3], Bassma Kodmani (future founder of the Syrian National Council), and the Director of the SWP, Volker Perthes.

The Bilderberg Group is a NATO initiative, and NATO directly handles security for these meetings [4]… … …

The Takfiri terrorist organizations prevented a joint team of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) from entering the towns of al-Fouaa and Kefraya besieged by “Jaish al-Fateh” terrorists.

“The joint team had to postpone the mission to al-Foua’a and Kafraya upon receiving reports from armed groups that more time was needed to finalize security arrangements in areas under their control,” Reuters quoted the United Nations as saying in a joint statement with SARC and ICRC, adding that “they will continue efforts to reach the town”.

According to the statement, “A third round of aid was delivered to the besieged towns of al-Foua’a and Kafraya on Monday in conjunction with the entry of humanitarian aid to al-Zabadani and Madaya in Damascus countryside.”

On December 28, 2015, the United Nation’s OCHA made its first express Twitter mention of two northern Syrian villages, al-Foua and Kafarya (also transliterated as Kafraya).

The belated December mention is in spite of the fact that the two villages of around 30,000 people have been locked under siege by terrorist factions Jebhat al-Nusra (al Qaeda in Syria), Jaysh al-Fattah (the so-called “Army of Conquest”), and Ahrar al-Sham (Liberation of the Levant Movement), among other terrorist factions, since March 2015. The siege has meant that the isolated villages have had limited to no access to food and medical supplies since then. Additionally, terrorists have been daily firing rockets, mortars and hell cannons at the villages, killing and maiming residents, destroying homes and infrastructure.

The tweet-linked UN report, however, does mention at least mention the two villages by name, although it does not at all mention the terrorists’ bombings of the villages, nor the immensely dire situation there.

This in spite of the fact that the UN did acknowledge, back in March 2015, that al-Foua and Kafarya had just been besieged.

Consider that the areas that the UN’s OCHA did tweet about–Yarmouk, al-Waer, Zabadani, Madaya, to name but some–are occupied by terrorists as criminal as Da’esh which the west purports to fight. All these factions are terrorists, none of them moderates.

Somehow, the UN is able to visit Madaya, al-Waer… but cannot get to al-Foua and Kafarya. Defies logic. If the UN representatives are able to enter into terrorist hotbeds, they can exert pressure on the western-backed mercenaries to allow them into civilian areas surrounded by the terrorists. IF they wanted to. Which they don’t.

“The admission of aid should be done in accordance with the UN principles for the humanitarian aid in the states of emergency, on top, respecting Syrian sovereignty, territorial integrity and in light of commitments resulting from the response plans signed with the Syrian government,” al-Jaafari said in a speech at a UN Security Council session to discuss regular report of the UN Chief on implementing resolutions 2193, 2165 and 2191.

The US battle cry – “We do not negotiate with terrorists” – has long been an axiom of foreign policy and an excuse for military interventionism, but recently, there have been a stream of media reports asserting that the US in fact should and does negotiate with terrorists, an international lawyer in Indonesia says.

Barry Grossman told Press TV on Saturday that even US presidential candidate Ted Cruz said in an interview with the ABC on June 1, 2015, that “US policy has changed, now we make deals with terrorists.”

Asked to comment on the matter, Grossman said that “apparently, this change of policy by stealth is now so complete, that it is not of interest to anyone that a man designated as a high level al-Qaeda terrorist by special order of the US president in 2013 participated in the US-sanctioned and UN-sponsored Yemen peace talks in Geneva this week.”

Daesh-ISIS mercenaries send “prettiest virgins” to the northern Syrian city of Raqqa to sell them at higher prices there, a U.N. envoy says.

Following her investigative mission to Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan to gather data on the ISIL sex crimes, Zainab Bangura, the special representative of the UN secretary general on sexual violence in conflict, told online news portal Middle East Eye on Monday that the terrorist organization is committing horrendous crimes against women, particularly against the Izadi community.

New evidence has revealed how Islamic State fighters buy children as sex slaves and force them into marriage. Girls from Iraq and Syria told a senior UN official they were stripped, sold, and made to undergo over a dozen virginity reparation surgeries.

“Girls are literally being stripped naked and examined in slave bazaars,” by Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) fighters, Zainab Bangura, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict told the journalist during a briefing.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif delivers an address to the Opening Meeting of the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at United Nations headquarters in New York, April 27, 2015.

Iran has demanded that Israel give up its “nuclear weapons”, as it spoke on behalf of the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement. Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif said the bloc also wants a nuclear free-zone in the Middle East.

Mohammad Javad Zarif was speaking at the United Nations for the non-aligned group of countries. Israel has never admitted or denied the widespread assumption it has nuclear weapons. However, Zarif says Israel’s assumed nuclear arsenal was a threat to regional security.

Zarif added that the non-aligned bloc are looking to create a nuclear free-zone in the Middle East “as a matter of high priority,” which will only be possible, if Israel abandons its nuclear stockpile.

During the conference, Tehran also demanded that countries who possessed nuclear weapons should not seek to modernize their weapons stockpiles.

Iran’s foreign minister says the use of nuclear weapons or even the threat of use of such weapons is a crime against humanity.

Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks while addressing the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in New York on Monday.

“We firmly believe that any use or threat of use of nuclear weapons would be a crime against humanity and a violation of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, in particular, international humanitarian law,” he said.

CAMEL’S URINE DRINKERS OF THE AL-SAUD TRIBE, RUTHLESS BLOODTHIRSTY DICTATORS AND RIGHT ARM OF U.S. & ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ARE THE MOST EVILS BARBARIANS BETWEEN THE ZIONIST’S DUMMIES ON THE EART, EQUATED ONLY BY THE CRIMINAL ALIEN SPECIE OF THE ZIONIST REGIME. (a SyrianFreePress note)

(RT.com/op-edge) ~ The older generation of Saudi diplomats was more passive, while newcomers, such as the defense minister, want to assert Saudi hegemony in the Middle East in a more venous manner as we are seeing in Yemen, Danny Makki of the Syrian Youth Movement said in this interview to RT.

… … …”It’s no doubt that Mohammad bin Salman, the new Defense Minister, and the head of the Royal Court is one of the most influential and significant figures within the Saudi Kingdom. At the age of 34 he is a Defense Minister and has unprecedented power for someone of his age. He is also known as a very tough resolute, aggressive individual, someone with big ambitions and who is mastermind of this operation against Yemen. What this does reflect is a new era in Saudi politicians and figures, an era of individuals who want to assert Saudi authority and hegemony in the Middle East in more assertive, in more venomous manner as we are seeing in Yemen”… … …

2 US senators introduce a bill to congress that aims to give Jerusalem to Israel, and allow Israeli citizens to move anywhere in Jerusalem.

A new two-year term of the 114th congress started in the Unites States on Tuesday 6 January 2015, as Republicans take control of the House and the Senate. While everyone is paying attention to Russia and Ukraine or Iraq Syria and ISIS, a bill was introduced to this congress on 7 January 2015.

President Nicolas Maduro said the country’s National Assembly elections must go on “whether the empire wants it or not.”

The Venezuelan National Asembly passed the enabling law that allows the country’s president to act to protect the peace against recent threats made by the United States government of Barack Obama.

The bill, which received 99 percent of votes from the Great Patriotic Pole alliance – the largest voting bloc in the assembly, will now move to a second reading for final approval. The move follows a statement by the United States government Monday that declared Venezuela a “threat to the national security” and calling a national emergency.

Propaganda Alert: Hypocrisy and falsehoods, guidelines for Francois Delattre, Representative of France to the United Nations, elected by no one, but judging the legitimacy of President Bashar al-Assad…

Despite the approval and implementation of the proposals of UN Special Envoy, Staffan de Mistura, for Francois Delattre the problem is the President Bashar al-Assad, and not instead who like USA, Turkey, Saudi, trains and provides weapons to the terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq (and Libya and…), which then end up to join Daesh, bringing with them all the American weapons…paid for by American taxpayers…

The UN would be effective in settling international disputes, if some member-states didn’t try to use it for dominating world affairs, Russian Foreign Minister believes, adding that such efforts led to bombings in Serbia, war in Iraq and chaos in Libya.

“It’s time to answer the question: do we really want the see the UN an effective and influential instrument of preserving peace and security or are we ready to allow it turn into the arena of propagandist struggle, with the UN being excluded from the process of finding key solutions to international problems,” Lavrov said, at the open debate for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)

Agreement between the US and Turkey to train and arm terrorists of the so-called “moderate opposition” means the failure of a plan set by the UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura.

“The reality which became crystal clear is that the US politicians are the ones who protect the terrorist criminal organizations, and the most important evidence on this fact is the cosmetic war of the US coalition on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization which is carried on beyond the international legitimacy and the UN Security Council’s relevant resolutions,” Mikdad added.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the foreign interference in the affairs the Middle East countries and the nonchalance about the future of their people have caused extremism and terrorism to spread: “Washington ignores the Syrian Army which is the true force combating terrorism”.

In a statement on Friday, the Ministry said that this agreement entails training Syrian armed units belonging to “moderate opposition” in Turkey as part of a program with a budget of USD 500 million launched by the U.S. which entails training 5,000 opposition fighters per year by 400 professional U.S. trainers in Turkey, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.

Iranian Defense Minister: “Syrian Army, people reached stage of deterrence against terrorism”. Israel is unable to take any move against the resistance in the region.

“Takfiri terrorist organizations are practicing their aggression in the region on behalf of the Zionist entity,” Dehghan said in a statement.

The full liberation of Aleppo city from terrorists is just around the corner.

UN Special Envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura asserted that the political solution is only solution for the crisis in Syria, that President al-Assad is part of that solution and he will continue to hold discussions with him.

Any peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria must involve President Bashar Assad, the United Nations envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said Friday.

“President Assad is part of the solution,” de Mistura told a joint press conference with Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz in Vienna.

“I will continue to have very important discussions with him,” he added, noting that “the only solution is a political solution.”

The Palestinian Authority will officially join the ICC on April 1, while Israel is not a member.

The International Criminal Court in the Hague has opened a “preliminary examination” of possible war crimes conducted on Palestinian territory during the last year’s military conflict with Israel in Gaza.

In a statement released on the ICC website, its Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda promised that her office “will conduct its analysis in full independence and impartiality,” mentioning that no deadline has been set for announcing the results of the investigation.

The US condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to launch a preliminary investigation into Israel’s crimes calling it a “tragic irony”.

So, the REAL question is,

“Is the International Criminal Court legitimate enough to go ahead with their investigation of Israel for war crimes committed against the people locked in an open air prison called Gaza?”

An American journalist and writer is of the opinion that it’s absolutely logical and fair to maintain that Israel is a racist and apartheid state that abides by no internationally-recognized rule or convention.

According to Mr. Norton, the United States is complicit in the atrocities of Israel. “Israel has violated at least 70 UN Security Council resolutions, but the US has prevented any punishment. Israel has committed crime after crime after crime, but the US has prevented the UN from taking any disciplinary action.”

Along with the military campaign in the Occupied Territories, Israel is also carrying out an intense, racist campaign of demonizing and dehumanizing the people of Palestine to justify their killing. “To perpetuate the violence upon which it thrives, a state ultimately must convince its soldiers to pull the trigger. If it humanizes those whom it wants dead, it becomes hard for soldiers to blindly follow orders and kill—the soldiers see how much they have in common with their supposed enemy”. Following is the text of the interview.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized some European governments for siding with the Palestinians over a bid at the UN that demands the withdrawal of the Tel Aviv regime from occupied territories.

Israel occupied the Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem al-Quds, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank during the Six-Day War of 1967. Tel Aviv withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but its forces have been carrying out regular deadly forays into the besieged sliver ever since the pullout.

Syria’s permanent envoy to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said the Israeli occupation forces added a new crime to their record against the Syrian people, mainly, supporting terrorists in the zone where the ‘United Nations Disengagement Observer Force’ (UNDOF) is operating, which monitors a 1974 disengagement accord between Syria and the Israeli enemy.

“In spite of all international calls and resolutions related to the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from the occupied Arab lands into the line of June 4th, 1967 and establishing the Palestinian independent state, no progress has been achieved in this regard,” al-Jaafari said.

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari said that three years into the terrorist aggression against Syria, all countries have come to realize the dangers of the proliferation of the terror threat in the world.

Al-Jaafari went on to say that the UN Security Council resolutions have obstructed all cooperation and openness initiatives manifested by Syria lately with the international commissions, hindering the possibility of putting an end to the crisis in the country as well through encouraging terrorism.

“After much denial, the international community came to a conclusion that proves the veracity of what the Syrian government has been saying for several years, which is that Syria is facing mercenaries and terrorists coming from 83 countries, mercenaries who were trained in camps in Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, under US-French-British supervision,” he said.

Al-Jaafari went on to say “We were wishing that the UN Secretariat staff were more neutral about the diagnosis of terrorist activities which Syria is exposed to, especially since after a long time of denial, the so-called international community came out the outcome that what the Syrian government has been saying proved to be true.”

Nevaehwest posted on October 25, 2014 ~ The “Editorial Board” (whoever that is), of the Washington Post wrote an article October 23, 2014 titled:

“OBAMA GIVES SYRIA’S ASSAD ANOTHER PASS ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS”

First off, lets break down this completely insulting article…

…If people wouldnt just take some publications at face value, but would do a bit of research for themselves, the world may be a more peaceful place. At least the things happening in it would be exposed for what they are, and DIS-information (like this garbage published by the Washington Post), would immediately be known as outright lies. I guess they dont care anymore if their articles can hold a teaspoon of water, just so long as they mimic the corrupt politicians and the corporate elite they serve like the good little slaves they are. Its a shame really, but most of all, SHAME ON THEM!

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